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Top 25 Media planning and buying firms based in San Diego, United States

Name: Media planning and buying firms based in San Diego, United States
Creator: RevenueBase
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 20, 2026 73 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 73 media planning and buying firms headquartered in San Diego, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 382 professional contacts across them, including 116 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.

This list covers media planning and buying firms headquartered in San Diego, United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 20, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

73Companies

382Contacts tracked

116Verified emails

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The 25 largest media planning and buying firms based in San Diego, United States

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 73 media planning and buying firms based in San Diego, United States, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 20, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to media planning and buying firms: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#	Company	RevenueBase Smart Search	Headquarters	Employees	Contacts
1	IVC Media	Indirect evidence	San Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	33 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We help corporate, nonprofit, political, and public affairs clients execute persuasive multimedia campaigns with straightforward, effective strategies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
2	62above	Partial evidence	San Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	32 contacts →
	Partial evidence “62ΛBOVE brings a strategic approach to marketing challenges, incorporating creative, public relations, social media, influencer marketing and paid media.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
3	Modifly	Indirect evidence	San Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	31 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Modifly is a performance-driven marketing partner built to deliver real business impact, not just platform performance.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
4	LMA Marketing & Advertising	Indirect evidence	San Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	26 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “LMA is a full service marketing & advertising agency providing start to finish marketing solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
5	SUN Marketing	Partial evidence	San Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1-10	17 contacts →
	Partial evidence “30 years of building media and marketing relationships translates to the best values when we buy media, in either English or Spanish, for any products or services under the sun.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
6	Influenceish	Indirect evidence	San Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1-10	14 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We grow businesses through performance creatives.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
7	ROI Media 360	Partial evidence	San Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	13 contacts →
	Partial evidence “At ROI MEDIA 360, we believe that every client deserves our personal attention.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
8	ARK Marketing & Media Solutions	Strong evidence	San Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	11 contacts →
	Strong evidence “We are a San Diego based media agency specializing in the strategy, planning and placement of media advertising throughout the country.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
9	Vitrorobertson	Indirect evidence	San Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	51-200	8 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We Listen: We're an advertising agency filled with extremely talented people.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
10	Emergent Digital	Partial evidence	San Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	7 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Who We Are An agile, boutique digital media agency, we achieve next-level optimization through world-class media management practices backed with machine learning and artificial…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
11	Justin PHU Media	Indirect evidence	San Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1-10	6 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “After 10 successful years in Corporate America managing millions of dollars of strategies put forth towards successful Digital Marketing efforts, Justin Phu created an agency that…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
12	Advanced Marketing Strategies	Indirect evidence	San Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	6 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Advanced Marketing Strategies is a full-service, results-driven, omnichannel Marketing and Advertising agency that inspires companies who want to innovate, grow, and take their…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
13	Gaslamp District Media	Partial evidence	San Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	6 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Gaslamp District Media (GDM) provides clients a marketing platform that is unlike any other.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
14	loading.media	Partial evidence	San Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1-10	5 contacts →
	Partial evidence “We develop, produce, and place media for small-to-mid sized businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
15	Creative Media Concepts	Partial evidence	San Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	4 contacts →
	Partial evidence “For the last 25 years, Creative Media Concepts has been pioneering the Advertising Agency Industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
16	Foxhouse Media	Partial evidence	San Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1-10	4 contacts →
	Partial evidence “FoxHouse Media is a full-service digital agency built for the now.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
17	90west Digital	Indirect evidence	San Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1-10	3 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Most marketing agencies need case studies to prove they're good.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
18	Hart Marketing & Business Development	Indirect evidence	San Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	51-200	3 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Hart Marketing & Business Development (HMBD) is your powerhouse partner for all things marketing, advertising, and business growth!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
19	Better Ads, INC	Indirect evidence	San Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	3 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Better Ads, Inc: improving quality, effectiveness, and impact of your advertisements.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
20	Multicultulab	Partial evidence	San Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1-10	3 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Multicultulab is founded on the principle of enhancing client outreach to hyper-local multicultural communities by leveraging our extensive media expertise.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
21	Traffic And Bridges	Strong evidence	San Diego, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1-10	3 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Traffic and Bridges is a Marketing Strategy company focused on finding your ideal audience and connecting them with your product or service- Media Buying - Media Planning -…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
22	Fish Tail Media	Indirect evidence	San Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1-10	2 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Combining Strategy, Creativity, and Technical Expertise.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
23	Tecamplify	Indirect evidence	San Diego, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	2 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “More than ever businesses of all sizes need to find unique ways to break through the clutter.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
24	Optimatic	Partial evidence	San Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	2 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Optimatic provides top tier, white glove programmatic media campaigns.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
25	NEW Natives Social	Partial evidence	San Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1-10	2 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Media agency” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026

RevenueBase Smart Search

RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: media planning and buying firms. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.

Strong evidence: The company's own public description of its business names media planning and buying firms.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of media planning and buying firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name media planning and buying firms. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.

RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.

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Media planning and buying firms based in San Diego, United States at a glance

As of Sep 20, 2026

30.4%Verified-email coverage

5.2Average contacts per company

1-10Median size (employees)

680.8%Largest-city concentration · New York

Sep 20, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

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Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than for San Diego, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for San Diego, over 73 companies.

How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among media planning and buying firms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source: The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies: Companies headquartered in San Diego, United States whose own description of what they do matches “media planning and buying firms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search: RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names media planning and buying firms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude: Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among media planning and buying firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside San Diego are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality: In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking: Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification: Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 116 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh: This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections: Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.

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Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names media planning and buying firms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many media planning and buying firms are there based in San Diego, United States?

RevenueBase identified 73 media planning and buying firms headquartered in San Diego, United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

IVC Media, headquartered in San Diego, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most media planning and buying firms?

New York leads with 497 headquartered companies, followed by Los Angeles (307) and Chicago (169).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 116 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 73 companies.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.

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About this data

RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.